Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 2 | Since 1986 Rytasha has broken away from her guru and set up on her own with a charity called Food Relief International , which raises money from the fiercely competitive matrons of Palm Beach and distributes it to the starving people of Bangladesh . |
| 3 | Two years after Sandra set up on her own , Claire joined her . |
| 4 | She was only 28 when she set up on her own in 1976 , after starting her career as a researcher . |
| 5 | When the two partners first set up on their own — according to Byrne , with only $5000 capital and giving up a secure future — they did so under the guise of an employment agency , so that they would not appear to be in direct competition with their ex-employers . |
| 6 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |
| 7 | I decided , ‘ Right this is n't it ’ , so I left and set up on my own . |
| 8 | He set up on his own because the company he worked for , Top Man , did n't really know what was going on , on a street level . |
| 9 | He had completed his articles with James Edmeston of Bishopsgate before he was twenty , and was involved in several large building projects including Hungerford Market and the Fishmongers Hall ( 1831–4 ) when he worked for Henry Roberts , before he set up on his own . |
| 10 | After mulling over the idea for almost a year , Mr Chambers made the decision to leave Greenfield Human Resources — the agency he joined as a trainee in 1956 and left as a director — and set up on his own . |
| 11 | Picard , who last year set up on his own after splitting from his associate Jacques Tajan , is using offices he inherited as his part of the separation . |
| 12 | And my brothers both went to er , a headmaster from the high school set up on his own and they both went there , and that was at the corner of Avenue on Road . |
| 13 | he set up on his own you see and my brothers went there . |
| 14 | In 1834 he set up on his own in London as a general chemical manufacturer . |
| 15 | He set up on his own in Leamington , trading in medicinal salts , but in 1831 changed his scope to that of manufacturing salt and alkali in Stoke Prior in Worcestershire , a site valuable for its nearness to the Droitwich salt deposits , and to the new lines of transport communication of the Birmingham and Worcester canal . |
| 16 | The agreement stated that the defendant would leave the plaintiff 's employment and set up on his own in premises which T would lease to him and T would transfer his custom to the defendant . |
| 17 | Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is to head the newly-established " Green Cross " , an organization set up at his own initiative with the aim of being an environmental equivalent of the Red Cross . |
| 18 | But after he inherited a little money and set up in his own business Mama stopped working , and then she had my little brothers . ’ |
| 19 | Didier had class-mates who lived in the extensive nineteenth-century houses , set back in their own grounds , on the hill behind the rue Victorie . |
| 20 | Over the road , set back in its own garden , a house ; and certainly anyone could see what they liked from the upstairs windows . |